Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
MARTIALYou admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
More Martial Quotes
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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